To love her was a liberal education.
When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.